Background
George Thomas Tilden was born in 1845 at Concord, New Hampshire, United States.
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Jesup Hall at Williams College
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Rotch & Tilden
Public Library in Billerica
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Rotch & Tilden
GEORGE THOMAS TILDEN
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He received an early education at Phillips Exeter Academy. After attending classes at Lowell Institute (fore-runner of M.I.T. in Boston) Mr. Tilden continued his studies in Paris in Atlier Vaudremer of the Ecoie des Beaux Arts.
Career
Taking up Architecture as a profession, the young man began his training in the Boston office of Ware and Van Brunt.
In 1880 he opened an office in Boston under the firm name of Rotch & Tilden, and over a period of fifteen years the partners maintained one of the most active architectural offices in New England. They also designed buildings in New York, Washington, D. C. and Charleston, S. C. In Massachusetts the more important examples of the firm’s work include the Town Hall in Milton, Sargent Normal School and Gynasium at Cambridge, the Art Museum, Wellesley College, Plymouth High School, Jesup Hall at Williams College, Williamstown, Public Library in Billerica, the Blue Hills Observatory, Milton, and the American Legion Building in Boston. Mr. Tilden was also identified with the design of many suburban homes, among them "Ventnor Hall” and “Belvoir” on estates in Lenox.
In 1915 Mr. Tilden closed his office in Boston and retired to his home in Milton, a town in which he had resided for more than forty years, participating actively in civic affairs.
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Membership
In his professional career he had been a member of the Boston Society of Architects after 1876, and since 1889 a Fellow of the Institute. In 1895, following the death of Arthur Rotch, Tilden was appointed Trustee of the Traveling Scholarship Fund established by the latter.
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1880 - 1895
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1895 - 1915